Category Archives: Storytelling and Social Media

Back in December, Madelyn Blair sent a message to the 689 members of Worldwide Story Work noting that she and the other two administrators of the Ning group were contemplating moving the group to Facebook. Ning, which began as a free platform on which users could create free social-media venues … Continue reading →

Colleague Doug Rice (see my Q and A with him here) is initiating “a Twitter chat centered around the story concept in business, art, and life” — #StoryChat. He’ll feature “copywriters, screenwriters, novelists, photographers, storytellers, and many other professionals and interesting people who use story as a platform for what … Continue reading →

Reinvention Summit 2 is history, but I’m continuing to recap, synthesize, and expand on its 20 excellent sessions. From a session with Marie Forleo (“My goal is to add more value to your world than you ever dreamed possible by giving you tools that you can immediately use to improve … Continue reading →

See a photo of Mary, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Mary Daniels Brown, Question 2: Q: To what extent do you believe people construct their narrative identities differently in the digital world — for example on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and blogs — from the way … Continue reading →

I want to give you an idea about just how incredibly content-rich we can expect next month’s Reinvention Summit to be. During the 2010 Summit, I covered on this blog just 6 of many sessions offered. But as you can see from the links below, I learned so much, was … Continue reading →

Someday I’d like to attend the South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin. In the meantime, it’s nice that the conference gets comprehensively covered in clever ways with strong story elements. Here are two that caught my eye this year: Storify: Storify, the tool that helps users tell stories … Continue reading →

As I noted in mid-January, Mashable recently held a story contest to mark the huge expansion of the character limit of Facebook status updates to 63,206 characters. The site announced the winner this week: We received a range of responses, including prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and even someone who used … Continue reading →

I had two occasions in the last couple of months to see the “About” pages of many Web sites and blogs. In the first, I had a few dozen story practitioners that I wanted to invite to participate in my Q&A series. In the second, I visited many sites and … Continue reading →

I committed myself this month to updating some aspects of this blog, notably the “inside pages” on which I list links related to applied storytelling (Links to Interdisciplinary Storytelling Resources, Links to Organizational Storytelling Resources, Links to Storytelling Platforms, Tools, and Prompts, Links to Blogs that Relate to Storytelling, Links … Continue reading →